This is my birthday — twenty-one years old today. I was
detailed to help dig a grave for the body of Rufus C. Walter, of Company G, who
died last night. He had been wounded and lived here in camp in a hammock which
was tied to trees, or to posts set in the ground when there were no trees.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 135
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